Yellowing pages offer a glimpse of phone history
Yellowing pages offer a glimpse of phone history
The old home phone numbers of former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, composer Edward Elgar and poet John Betjeman are among millions being made available online for the first time on Wednesday, reports Reuters.
Genealogy Web site Ancestry.co.uk has spent three years transferring nearly 2,000 old phone books to the Internet to help people research their family tree.
From the first slimline directory of 1880 that contained just 248 names to the heavyweight volumes of the 1980s, the collection traces the inexorable spread of the phone network.
… Directories for London were published online last year. The project now includes all the 280 million historic names, addresses and numbers from across Britain.”
(Via textually.org.)
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